I think there might be a bug that needs exterminating. I have experienced some hurdles trying to add events and reminders directly into the calendar panel. Here is another image of NotePlan at work: I’ve anotated this screen capture of NotePlan 3. The advantage in this scenario goes to NotePlan, I believe, because it is so easy to add wiki links to other undated note pages to flesh out details of meetings, projects and goals. Note that I can create wiki links to pages for upcoming events or goals so I can work on them in depth. This is the same action dashboard in NotePlan. Here is what an action dashboard looks like in each of the two apps: I sometimes find it helpful to put together what I call an action dasboard when I need to get my head back in the game of an area of responsibility I may have neglected. Here’s a little exercise demonstration to show the difference between the two: Things also syncs with Calendar and Reminders, where NotePlan interfaces with your Calendar, but does not sync tasks in the notes to Reminders. You can surround your tasks with this kind of information in NotePlan, but it doesn’t become part of the task itself, as it does with Things. Things also allows you to add meta data to a task: sub-tasks, urgency (deadline), task-specific notes. NotePlan allows you to embed tasks within notes, while Things allows you to embed notes within tasks. NotePlan is a notes app that handles tasks adeptly. That isn’t to say that they are not different in many ways. If you’re already a fan of Things and find it handles your task management well, you probably don’t also need NotePlan… and vice versa. As to whether they are redundant or complementary, I reluctantly have to say they are mostly redundant, but that may depend somewhat on your needs. I agree completely that they are both elegantly designed. Do they seem redundant to you or complementary? I think they overlap in function and even in elegant modern German software design. Stephen asked in a comment on that article my impressions of NotePlan and Things. Back in September I wrote about NotePlan 3 (which is now out of beta an in official release).
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